| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: thoroughly out of humor; "and a sneaking down visage too, when I
come to look at you. I doubt but you are a Papist too, I do!"
"Well, sir! and what if I am! I trust I don't break the queen's
laws by that. If I don't attend Northam church, I pay my month's
shilling for the use of the poor, as the act directs; and beyond
that, neither you nor any man dare demand of me."
"Dare! act directs! You rascally lawyer, you! and whence does an
ostler like you get your shilling to pay withal? Answer me." The
examinate found it so difficult to answer the question, that he
suddenly became afflicted with deafness.
"Do you hear?" roared Amyas, catching at him with his lion's paw.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from American Notes by Rudyard Kipling: real-estate man, to whom we had been intrusted by an insurance
man, met us in the street, saying that fifteen miles away, across
country, we should come upon a place called Clackamas, where we
might per-chance find what we desired. And California, his
coat-tails flying in the wind, ran to a livery-stable and
chartered a wagon and team forthwith. I could push the wagon
about with one hand, so light was its structure. The team was
purely American--that is to say, almost human in its intelligence
and docility. Some one said that the roads were not good on the
way to Clackamas, and warned us against smashing the springs.
"Portland," who had watched the preparations, finally reckoned
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: procured some arsenic, persuaded Katerina Maslova to give it to
the merchant Smelkoff in a glass of brandy, which was the cause
of Smelkoff's death. Do you plead guilty?" said the president,
stooping to the right.
"Not nohow, because our business is to attend on the lodgers,
and--"
"You'll tell us that afterwards. Do you plead guilty?"
"Oh, no, sir. I only,--"
"You'll tell us that afterwards. Do you plead guilty?" quietly
and firmly asked the president.
"Can't do such a thing, because that--"
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